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"The city as a complex socio-cultural structure plays a central role within a country, economically, administratively as well as culturally. Factors such as greater mobility, increased contact, and a higher degree of heterogeneity compared to rural areas have a substantial impact on urban socie...

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Other Authors: Ziegler, Arne, 1963- (Editor), Edler, Stefanie (Editor), Oberdorfer, Georg (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021.
Subjects:
Urban dialects > Europe.
Linguistic geography > Europe.
Language and languages > Variation.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Place attachment > Europe.
Dialectes urbains > Europe.
Variation (Linguistique)
Identité.
Attachement à un lieu > Europe.
identity.
Electronic books.
Essays.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Urban Matters
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Place identity vs. contact and mobility
  • fragmentation of the city
  • 2. Shifting indexicalities
  • 3. Geography and language change
  • References
  • The sociolinguistic city
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Cities as sites of encounter
  • 2.1 Heterogeneity and sociolinguistic encounter
  • 2.2 City mobilities and urban encounters
  • 2.3 Circulation in the city: How change spreads
  • 3. Discussion
  • References
  • Identity and mobility in linguistic change across the lifespan: The case of Swabian German
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Research background
  • 3. Data and methods
  • 3.1 Speech communities
  • 3.2 Swabian corpus
  • 3.3 Transcription
  • 3.4 Dialect Density Index (DDI)
  • 3.5 Extra-linguistic predictors
  • 3.6 Statistical methods
  • 3.7 Interviewer effect
  • 4. Analyses and results
  • 4.1 Dialect density across the lifespan
  • 4.2 Extralinguistic constraints on dialect density
  • 4.3 Change in linguistic variables
  • 4.4 Types of individual speaker change
  • 4.5 Some ethnographic observations
  • 5. Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Urban/suburban contact as stylized social practice
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Contact and identity in metropolitan areas
  • 2.1 Migration to suburbs
  • 2.2 Commuting to cities
  • 2.3 A role for identity?
  • 3. Greater St. Louis
  • 3.1 Background
  • 3.2 Linguistic features
  • 4. Methods
  • 4.1 Interviews
  • 4.2 Questionnaire
  • 5. Results
  • 5.1 Production
  • 5.2 Questionnaire
  • 6. Discussion
  • 7. Conclusion
  • References
  • Counterurbanisation, dialect contact and the levelling of non-salient traditional dialect variants: The case of the front short vowels in Eastern England
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Intra-national mobilities and dialect levelling.
  • 3. Dialect levelling and Short Front Vowels in East Anglian English
  • 4. Methods
  • 5. Results
  • 5.1 get
  • 5.2 have
  • 5.3 Merger in progress?
  • 6. Discussion
  • References
  • Language attitudes among mobile speakers: Evidence from Italian speakers living abroad
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Emigrating to Belgium and Switzerland: In the past and present
  • 3. Standard language ideology in Italy
  • 4. Method
  • 4.1 Speech stimuli
  • 4.2 Evaluative scales and factor analysis
  • 4.3 Procedure
  • 4.4 Respondents
  • 5. Results
  • 5.1 Factor analysis
  • 5.2 Average scores and scaling
  • 5.3 Effects
  • 6. Discussion
  • 7. Conclusions
  • References
  • Urban-rural dimensions to variable -body/-one: The case of Ontario, Canada
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Historical background
  • 3. Synchronic situation: Canadian English
  • 3.1 Distributional analysis
  • 3.2 Geographic distribution
  • 3.3 Statistical modelling
  • 4. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • From an indicator to a marker: Urban dialect loss in Michigan
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 The Inland North and the Northern Cities Shift
  • 1.2 Recession of the Northern Cities Shift
  • 2. Methodology
  • 2.1 Respondents
  • 2.2 Experimental design
  • 3. Analysis and results
  • Accented
  • Nasally
  • Hard-working
  • Bad English
  • Educated
  • 4. Discussion
  • References
  • Survey instrument
  • New and old social meanings in urban and rural Sweden: The changing indexicalities of damped /i/
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The damped /i/
  • 3. Phonological change and changing indexicalities
  • 4. Data and methods
  • 4.1 Locations and dialects: Gothenburg and Skärhamn
  • 4.2 The informants
  • 4.3 The production test
  • 4.4 The Implicit Association Test (IAT)
  • 4.5 The attitude interviews
  • 5. Results
  • 5.1 Results of the production test
  • 5.2 Results of the IAT
  • 5.3 Results of the attitude interviews.
  • 6. Summary and discussion
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Diminutives and their variation in spoken interaction in urban areas: The Austrian case
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Linguistic situation
  • 3. Diminutive suffixes and research questions
  • 4. Methodology
  • 4.1 Corpora and analytical procedure
  • 4.2 Informants
  • 5. Results
  • 5.1 Multivariate analyses of individual diminutive suffixes
  • 5.2 Diatopic view: Vienna and Graz and their surroundings
  • 5.3 Diastratic view: Distribution by gender
  • 5.4 Diastratic view: Distribution by age
  • 6. Conclusions
  • Funding
  • References
  • Areal microvariation in German-speaking urban areas (Ruhr Area, Berlin, and Vienna)
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Aims of the study
  • 3. Data, areas and methods
  • 3.1 Atlas zur deutschen Alltagssprache (AdA)
  • 3.2 German-speaking urban areas (three different ones)
  • 3.3 Methods
  • 4. Areal variation
  • 4.1 Ruhr Area
  • 4.2 Berlin
  • 4.3 Vienna
  • 5. Discussion: The interplay of space and social factors
  • 5.1 Ruhr Area
  • 5.2 Berlin
  • 5.3 Vienna
  • 6. Summary
  • References
  • Testing models of diffusion of morphosyntactic innovations in Twitter data
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Methodology and corpus construction
  • 2.1 Corpus structure
  • 3. Mapping the distribution of morphosyntactic variants
  • 3.1 Dative alternation revisited
  • 3.2 Preposition drop
  • 4. Approaches to the quantification of diffusion
  • 4.1 Measurement
  • 4.2 Evaluating real data
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Funding
  • References
  • Index.